e150 suspension on a 2wd ranger

[stockman9]

so ive been told by a couple people that i can take the front suspension of a econoline e150 and it will bolt right onto my ranger and give me long travel suspension. i am curious if anyone as ever successfully done this. any input would be great

 

[LittleBigFoot]

Are you talking about putting full size IFS components into a ranger?

I was looking into that...

 

[canyoncritter]

bolt on, ummm kindaish.....you can buy kits that will allow you to bolt it up, but its not just a rip one out of the junkyard and slap it on the ranger.


the E150 beams are equal lenth beams.

Ill try finding you some pics later tonight to explain more.

 

[stockman9]

cool

that would be cool cause i aint whippin out 5g on a long travel kit

 

[Skeleranger]

i hear ya there, my wallet hurts from just spending 1300 on wheels and tires.

 

[canyoncritter]

that would be cool cause i aint whippin out 5g on a long travel kit

well they wont just "bolt" on, there is alot of gemotry to know it make them work right, and you have to make new piviots ,know where to bend and cut the beams.build new radius arms, off the shelf skyjackers wont work etc.

here one pic, this is a newline front end, that used the van beams.

look threw the desert trucks, any of the equal lenth setups are on the same concept.
Just back in the day, mid 80's early 90's no one made all tube fabed beams and they would use the old school beams and reshape them to thier dreams.

 

[canyoncritter]

anouther pic I was able to find.

if your after cheap, this is not the route for you I dont think even if you can fab everything to fit.

 

[stockman9]

whats the cheapest way to do it were it wont fall apart the first time it leaves the ground?

 

[canyoncritter]

cheap and live jumping,,,,,,still searching for that secret myself.......


cheapest way, would be a autofab econo kit,and build it up as money permited.with a few up grades in good shocks and mounts those kits can really take a beating and be pretty smooth. they are the basic back bone of what was under the old 7s trucks like so.It the chepest perfornace based travel "lift" that I know of.Also go with the forged beams.they can be used in future upgrades later down the road vs the cast.

so now what about the rear so you dont buck over on your roof on the first jump you hit?...I imainge that would be sorta important to you since no mention of a cage......

 

[stockman9]

i don't know yet the whole thing is still being thought out. i plan on eventually putting a cage it but right now its my dd. so i cant' really do anything till i get another vehicle and i drive about 80 miles round trip to school so yea

 

[philzilla]

while were on the subject of suspension swaps. do you think it is do-able to switch fullsize bronco twin traction beams onto a ranger???

 

[canyoncritter]

while were on the subject of suspension swaps. do you think it is do-able to switch fullsize bronco twin traction beams onto a ranger???

yep,

http://autofab.com/mdl_44_ranger.htm

 

[dusto2]

just got to remeber anything is possible if you can dream it have the skills and the $$$ to back it